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Desormeaux: Horse That ‘Changed My Life’ Continues To Pay Dividends

My Girl Red, who cruised to a 4 3/4-length victory in Friday's Grade 2, $150,000 Sorrento Stakes, is a daughter of 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red. Both were/are trained by Keith Desormeaux.

“Texas Red changed my life,” Desormeaux said after the Sorrento. “Texas Red was the culmination of a lifetime of telling myself, and other people, that you don't have to pay boxcar prices (for horses) to win major races.

“I'll always be appreciative of that, and it's icing on the cake to have the same ownership group breed this kind of mare in his first group. Hopefully, it's onwards and upwards for him.”

In making it 2-for-2 for her career, favored My Girl Red ($3.80), was in control virtually from the start without much encouragement and was merely taking stock of her surroundings during the final sixteenth of a mile.

“She's always shown that she has a lot of class and she has the physical attributes that I look for in a good horse,” Desormeaux said. “For her to win first time out is the (epitome) of class. It shows that you don't have to work forty-five and change in the morning to show that kind of speed in the afternoon.”

Like father, like daughter? Not around the barn.

“Texas Red didn't want you to touch him. He's was pretty ornery,” Desormeaux said. “He wasn't a lovable type. This filly really seems to like to be around people. None of those ornery traits for her.”

Asked if the Grade I, Del Mar Debutante (September 6) was next, Desormeaux didn't hesitate. “Oh, of course,” he said.

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My Girl Red, Prat Team For Sorrento Stakes Victory

Erich Brehm's homebred filly My Girl Red showed speed from the start and won the 52nd edition of the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes for juvenile fillies by 4 3/4 wide open lengths Friday at Del Mar near San Diego, Calif.

The bay daughter of 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red – owned in part by Brehm and trained by My Girl Red's conditioner, J. Keith Desormeaux – covered six furlongs in 1:12.12 in eased-up fashion and picked up a check for $90,000 from the $150,500 total purse.

My Girl Red is the first stakes winner from the first crop by Texas Red.

Flavien Prat, Del Mar's leading rider with 20 firsts in 11 days of racing, rode My Girl Red for his seventh stakes win of the meet, far and away the most by any jockey at the shore session.

“I didn't have any special instructions; just ride her with confidence,” said Prat. “She showed speed away from there, then we got a nice breather on the turn. From there she just went on and won in hand.”

Finishing second was Reddam Racing's first-time starter Get On the Bus and running third was Tricar Stables' Exchange Vows.

My Girl Red, a Kentucky-bred, paid $3.80, $2.40 and $2.20 across the board as the 9-10 favorite in the field of six fillies.

Desormeaux indicated that his charge would point next for the meet's top offering for young fillies, the Grade 1, $250,000 Del Mar Debutante on Sunday, September 6.

“I know it's still early and the time is average,” said Desormeaux. “But I think she can go even quicker and I sure don't want to complain. She has always shown signs of class and it's nice to see one duplicate in the afternoon what we see in the mornings.”

Prat won two races on the afternoon, as did riders Umberto Rispoli and Juan Hernandez.

In the Pick Six, a lone ticket holder had races 4 through 9 tabbed correctly and picked up a score of $181,849 for his/her efforts. The $9,216 winning ticket was sold to a Player Management Group wagering through Xpressbet at their Oregon hub.

The winning horses were: Race 4 – #2 Madame Barbarian ($8.40); Race 5 — #10 Nero ($7.60); Race 6 — #10 Tripple Shake ($8.00); Race 7 — #5 Solitaire ($36.40); Race 8 — #4 My Girl Red ($3.80), and Race 9 — #6 Leggs Galore ($12.20).

Racing resumes at Del Mar Saturday with an 11-race card starting at 2 p.m.

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Texas Red Filly too Fast in Sorrento

My Girl Red, who became the first winner from her freshman sire (by Afleet Alex)’s small first crop when she aired by 4 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita June 14, ran to short odds in Friday evening’s GII Sorrento S. to become his first stakes and graded stakes winner as well. Campaigned by the same connections who raced the 2014 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile S. winner and 2015 GII Jim Dandy S. winner, the bay out-footed her five rivals in the early scramble for position to take a narrow advantage into the turn. She posted splits of :22.17 and :45.88, and was not for catching as she kicked on wrapped up and clear of buzzed-about firster Get On the Bus, who did well from the rail draw and raced like a horse who would benefit from Friday’s experience.

“I didn’t have any special instructions; just ride her with confidence,” said winning rider Flavien Prat. “She showed speed away from there, then we got a nice breather on the turn. From there she just went on and won in hand.”

Trainer Keith Desormeaux added, “Flavien was telling me how she was looking around and kind of lost interest the last eighth. What was nice to me was that she was doing that the first quarter. I know it’s still early and the time is average. But I think she can go even quicker and I sure don’t want to complain. She has always shown signs of class and it’s nice to see one duplicate in the afternoon what we see in the mornings.

My Girl Red will be pointed towards the GI Del Mar Debutante S. Sept. 6.

Friday, Del Mar
SORRENTO S.-GII, $150,500, Del Mar, 8-7, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:12.12, ft.
1–MY GIRL RED, 120, f, 2, by Texas Red
                1st Dam: Morakami (SP, $145,532), by Fusaichi Pegasus
                2nd Dam: Astrid, by Concern
                3rd Dam: Mescalina, by Smarten
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($70,000
RNA Ylg ’19 OBSOCT). O/B-Erich Brehm (KY); T-J. Keith
Desormeaux; J-Flavien Prat. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0,
$120,000. *1/2 to Over Thinking (Overanalyze), SP, $261,081;
Oh Marvelous Me (Bluegrass Cat), GSP, $207,558; and Gold
Street (Street Boss), MSW, $229,468. Werk Nick Rating: B.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Get On the Bus, 118, f, 2, Uncle Mo–Storybook (UAE), by
Halling. ($150,000 Ylg ’19 FTSAUG; $340,000 2yo ’20
OBSMAR). O-Reddam Racing LLC; B-Mr. Joseph Allen LLC (KY);
T-Doug F. O’Neill. $30,000.
3–Exchange Vows, 118, f, 2, Tapiture–Champagne Exchange, by
Exchange Rate. ($6,000 Ylg ’19 FTCAYR). O-Tricar Stables, Inc.;
B-Bar C Racing Stables Inc (CA); T-Sal Gonzalez. $18,000.
Margins: 4 3/4, 5, 1HF. Odds: 0.90, 2.80, 19.90.
Also Ran: Scat’s Choice, September Secret, Scaterra. Scratched: Trip to Seoul. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

Pedigree Notes:
Just a $17,000 KEESEP yearling, Texas Red missed by a neck from far back in his sprint debut before breaking through third out on the Del Mar synthetic in August of his juvenile season. He was third behind eventual champion American Pharoah in Santa Anita’s GI FrontRunner S. that September, and with that one absent crushed his competition in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at a tick under 14-1, besting fellow young sires Carpe Diem and Upstart in the process. He added the GII Jim Dandy S. at Saratoga the following year with a narrow defeat of Frosted, and eventually took up stud duties at Crestwood Farm.

Dam Morakami, meanwhile, was just a $21,000 pick-up at the 2017 Keeneland January sale while carrying a Street Boss colt. That colt was later sold for $150,00 at Keeneland September and would go on to take a pair of stakes (thus far) as Gold Street. Morakami produced another Texas Red filly last May and a Kitten’s Joy filly this year before visiting Into Mischief for 2021.
Prominent owner/breeder G. Watts Humphrey has a connection to both of Friday’s Grade II-winning juveniles. He raced Morakami, and bred GII Saratoga Special S. winner Jackie’s Warrior’s dam sire A. P. Five Hundred.

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Uncle Mo Firster Live From Rail in Sorrento

When signing for a $340,000 Uncle Mo filly at this year’s OBS March Sale, Dennis O’Neill, noted bloodstock advisor and brother of trainer Doug O’Neill, told the TDN’s Steve Sherack that he “kept telling [owner] Paul [Reddam] that she was my female Nyquist.” The April foal, now named Get On the Bus, looks a live chance on debut as she breaks from the rail in Friday’s GII Sorrento S. at Del Mar.

The April foal, produced by a winning half-sister to G1 Dubai World Cup hero African Story (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), was a $150,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling and was hammered down to O’Neill after working an eighth of a mile in :10 1/5 over the SafeTrack surface at OBS.

“She’s real racey and athletic looking,” O’Neill continued. I just loved her breeze and she galloped out really good. She’s a very classy filly. We’re very excited to get her in the barn.”

Erich Brehm homebred My Girl Red (Texas Red) became the first winner for her freshman sire (by Afleet Alex) with a pacesetting, 4 1/4-length victory going 4 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita June 14. Flavien Prat elects to stick with My Girl Red for her graded-stakes debut.

The hot-riding Abel Cedillo replaces the Frenchman atop morning-line favorite September Secret (Grazen). A debut ninth against Cal-bred maiden allowance company at Los Alamitos July 2, the gray filly was dangled for a $50,000 tag when facing state-breds at this venue July 24 and made light work of nine rivals, scampering clear to graduate by 7 3/4 lengths.

Trainer Jim Chapman sends out three of the Sorrento’s seven runners, the most promising of which looks to be Scaterra (Verrazano), a seven-length winner over the Arlington Poly July 25. Umberto Rispoli sees fit to take the call.

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